The #ScottsboroBoys/#ScottsboroNine were charged with rape on #ThisDayInHistory in 1931. A mixed group of teens were hobo'ing on a freight train. White boys tried to push Black ones off & lost, so they got the police. All-white juries repeatedly convicted them without evidence.

July 5 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley July 5 Peace Love Art Activism, marital rape became a crime in all 50 states, in at least one section of the sexual offense codes, usually regarding force.

#July5 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #BlackHistory #NYC #WilliamHamilton 1827, #ElizabethLawrence lynched 1933, #ScottsboroNine 1938, #BLM #AltonBSterling killed 2016, #MotherJones 1917, #RedScare 1952, #CapeVerde 1975 #Algeria 1962 independent, #AIDS 1981 + woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/07/05/j...

June Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley June Peace Love Art Activism, British authorities arrested Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong for his involvement in revolutionary activities. The British imprisoned him

#June #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #HoChiMinh slips out of #France 1923, #ScottsboroNine #OziePowell paroled 1946, #MonicaLewinsky in #WhiteHouse 1995, diocese #Sacramento settles 2005, #SAC #ReflexAlert 1952, #Tulsa race massacre #ReconciliationAct 2001, woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/06/01/j...

May 27 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley May 27 Peace Love Art Activism. What's so funny about peace, love, art, and activism? Nothing. Follow links to read more for historic happenings today.

#Peace #Love #Art #Activism #May27 #AchsahYoung #AliceYoung hung #Hartford #CT 1647 #Baptists expelled from #MA 1668 #IdaBWells 1892 #ScottsboroNine 1932 #Louisville revolt 1968 #Toledo #OH day 5 1934 #SALT agreement 1972 #SlobodanMilosevic 1999 + + woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/05/27/m...

May 8 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley May 8 Peace Love Art Activism, r. John S. Pemberton, pharmacist and inventor , sold the first Coca-Cola at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia

#Peace #Love #Art #Activism #May8 #CocaCola #DrJohnSPemberton 1886, #ScottsboroNine protest 1933, #CongressofRacialEquality #CORE 1943, #VietnamWar Hard Hat Riot #NYC 1970, #FreeSpeech #RobertBedrup 1967, #WoundedKnee 1973, #hungerstrike #JoeMcDonnell 1981
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March 25 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley March 25 Peace Love Art Activism 2019: NJ reform advocates experienced a setback after bill to legalize cannabis in New Jersey was pulled from the agenda

#OTD #March25 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #CoxeysArmy #WashingtonDC 1894, #TriangleShirtwaist Fire #NYC 146 die 1911, #PalaceTheatre opened #Vaudville 1913, #ScottsboroNine incident 1931, #ViolaLiuzzo killed #ColorBlindAngel 1965, #LindaBrown died 2018 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/03/25/m...

Scottsboro Nine Travesty | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Scottsboro Nine Travesty 2013 Alabama posthumously pardoned Haywood Patterson, Charles Weems and Andy Wright, thus absolving the last of the Scottsboro Boys

#OTD #BLM #March25, 1931 9 black youths charged with assault and rape. #Scottsboro #AL travesty of justice #ScottsboroNine #ScottsboroBoys woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/03/25/s...

Scottsboro Nine Travesty | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Scottsboro Nine Travesty 2013 Alabama posthumously pardoned Haywood Patterson, Charles Weems and Andy Wright, thus absolving the last of the Scottsboro Boys

#OTD #BLM #March25, 1931 9 black youths charged with assault and rape. #Scottsboro #AL travesty of justice #ScottsboroNine #ScottsboroBoys woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/03/25/s...